Garden Classrooms

Pacific Domes - Sustainable Living

  "Domes are the Strongest, lightest and most efficient means of enclosing space yet known to man." Richard Buckminster Fuller.

Pacific Domes is working toward the future of life on Earth by pioneering BioDomes, or Earthships as coined by Buckminster Fuller, in which every aspect of daily living has been carefully examined to create a self-sustaining eco system that takes care of you, your family & your school in harmony with nature.

International Sustainable Education Association

 We are an educational association working to help students prepare for their academic future while also adding a full range of discussions and activities geared towards creating a sustainable future. While our learning workshops are college preparatory, they are also holistic and life preparatory in nature. We are looking to develop something like California's "A Garden in Every School" project here in Oregon.

Rippowam school garden by the kids in the school

To create a school garden that will improve the quality of life for students in the garden. Provide a catayst for the neighborhood and community development. Stimulate Social Interaction. Encourage self-reliance. Beautify the neighborhood. Produce nutritious food. Reducefamilies food budget. Conserve resourses. Create opportunity for recreation, excersise, therapy, and education. Reduce crime. prederve green space that is not lawns. create income opportunities and economic development. redus city heat from streets and parking lots.

EcoHarvest

EcoHarvest is a partnership between Eco Education and Harvest Moon Backyard Farmers to restore a peace garden at the Seward Montessori elementary/middle school in Minneapolis. Fresh produce from this garden will be used in their school lunch program, at a local restaurant and donated to a local food shelf. In addition, this schoolyard garden will serve as a living classroom where after school and summer school programs will engage young people to learn more about healthy and locally grown food.

RAIZ DE FONDO

 Raíz De Fondo is a nonprofit organization based in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico that offers educational opportunities to children and adults in order to enhance local quality of life through organic gardening, nutritional advocacy, promotion of a sustainable culture, and community resilience. Three community gardens in La Paz serve as platforms for advancing this mission. Once abandoned lots, these urban oases now provide a space for residents to cultivate gardens, attend workshops and events, and build community connections.

Ruby school garden

We would like to start a school garden and have better nutritious food in our school.

Harvest of Dreams

 HARVEST OF DREAMS
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has….. Margaret Mead

Big Pine Academy Edible Garden

 Florida Keys Tropical School garden at a charter school

Thomas Jefferson Middle School Edible School Yard

 We are building an edible school yard to involve our students in their own nourishment.

Trinity Homegrown Foods

 Trinity Homegrown Foods is  advocacy  group to promote food and gardening centered in the rural community of Hayfork, Ca. We have been approached by the principle of our elementary school to help plan a community effort to coordinate local farmers participation is suppling food stuffs to the school lunch program and to assist in the formation of a student garden and possible kitchen classroom. We are at the initial planning stage of this project having just  submitted a grant proposal for funding this week.

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